Public-sector IT company Coactiva has created its first dedicated role for the social housing sector with the appointment of Kevin Gilhooly as its senior business development manager for the sector. Gilhooly’s appointment is accompanied by six other new recruits, each addressing different public-sector areas. Before joining Coactiva, Gilhooly spent a decade at Housing Partners where,…
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North Lanarkshire mobilises £280,000 of savings with Northgate
Northgate Public Services has help North Lanarkshire Council introduce mobile working using smartphones and a cloud-based infrastructure to improve its tenant services. The housing provider reported that it has already saved £280,000 per year by using the Northgate service. North Lanarkshire Council and Northgate jointly developed a web-based service for both staff and tenants, leading…
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Cloud-based CCTV supplement from Cloudview and Housing Technology
For the first of Housing Technology’s new series of ‘In-Depth 2015’ supplements, we have teamed up with Cloudview to look at how housing providers can use the latest cloud-based technologies to reduce the cost, effort and time of using their new or existing CCTV infrastructures to track anti-social behaviour and crime, as well as extend…
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Allpay boosts RCT Homes’ digital payments
RCT Homes has seen a surge in its tenants paying by digital payment channels which now represent more than half the value of payments it otherwise takes by debit and credit cards. The housing provider is using Allpay to offer tenants multiple payment options across cash, card and direct debits. In the past year, RCT…
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Altwood protects lone workers with StaySafe app
Housing services provider Altwood Group is using an app, running on iPads, from StaySafe Business to protect its staff and monitor their safety using GPS and alerts. The StaySafe Business app and surrounding cloud-based monitoring service tracks a lone worker’s location via GPS and alerts their manager if they don’t check-in within a specified time….
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Cloud Dialogs gets Network Housing mobile in just six weeks
Since January 2015, neighbourhood officers at Network Housing Group started using tablets to record tenant information, safety and building checks, and estate inspections. This follows the housing provider’s decision to implement an integrated mobile solution from Cloud Dialogs to replace its inefficient paper-based processes and forms. The entire implementation process and mobilisation of Network Housing’s…
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